{"id":6673,"date":"2011-05-25T18:30:36","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T22:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6673"},"modified":"2011-05-24T21:33:29","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T01:33:29","slug":"wednesday-various-76","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6673","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/fast-five,55266\/?utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_campaign=feeds&#038;utm_source=channel_film\">Scott Tobias on <i>Fast Five<\/i><\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>Fast Five may be lizard-brain escapism\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s something unsettling about how it lays waste to Rio\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s desperately poor <i>favelas<\/i>\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbut nonsense this well-orchestrated is a rare and precious thing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/glvalentine.livejournal.com\/304670.html\">Genevieve Valentine on <i>Priest<\/i><\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>Basically, Priest exists as an example of what happens when a team of creative people all get a concussion at once.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>John Seavey on <i>Smallville<\/i> &#8212; and, more specifically, <a href=\"http:\/\/fraggmented.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/why-smallville-is-not-doctor-who.html\">why it is not <i>Doctor Who<\/i><\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>And then, the next night, I watched &#8220;The Doctor&#8217;s Wife&#8221;. And while I won&#8217;t spoil anything, because the episode is very wonderful, very surprising, and many people probably haven&#8217;t seen it yet, I will say that it is the epitome of everything that <i>Doctor Who<\/i> is and everything that <i>Smallville<\/i> isn&#8217;t. Instead of being an &#8220;epic game-changer&#8221; that really doesn&#8217;t change anything, not even really the things it&#8217;s obligated to change&#8230;this was a normal, everyday, stand-alone non-arc episode that just happened to transform everything you thought you knew about forty-eight years of the series. And it did it almost casually.<\/p>\n<p><i>Doctor Who<\/i> is, and always has been like that. It&#8217;s never been afraid to reinvent itself, not even after forty-eight years. It&#8217;s a bold, inventive show that has no boundaries, no self-imposed rules, and no orthodoxies to uphold. That&#8217;s why it attracted a writer of the caliber of Neil Gaiman, whereas <i>Smallville<\/i> has had to content itself with Geoff Johns and Jeph Loeb. That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s still going and why I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;ll ever stop. Because it&#8217;s a show that can do anything&#8230;and one that will do anything.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>And speaking of shows that promise but don&#8217;t deliver on change, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/moving-on,56418\/\">Zach Handlen on <i>House<\/i><\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s like a game, really. Each year, the writers have to come up with some new way to trick us into thinking that the show is moving on. And then, come next season, they have to find some way to undo all those changes, because in <i>House<\/i>-land, we can have the illusion of growth but not growth itself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Everything I&#8217;m reading leads me to think that my decision to quit on the show at the start of this year was wrong only in that it came too late.<\/li>\n<li>And finally, Existential Star Wars [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynical-c.com\" title=\"Cynical-C\">via<\/a>]:\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q-uQWNd540I\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Tobias on Fast Five: Fast Five may be lizard-brain escapism\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s something unsettling about how it lays waste to Rio\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s desperately poor favelas\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbut nonsense this well-orchestrated is a rare and precious thing. Genevieve Valentine on Priest: Basically, Priest exists as an example of what happens when a team of creative people all get a &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6673\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[50,14,28,17,142],"class_list":["post-6673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-funny","tag-movies","tag-personal","tag-tv","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6673"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}